BALLATER (Gaelic for "the town on a sloping hill"), village and police burgh, parish of Glenmuick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 67oft. above sea, on the left bank of the Dee, here crossed by a fine bridge, 431m. by rail W. by S. of Aberdeen. Pop. 1,198. It is the terminus of the Deeside railway and the station for Balmoral, 8m. to the west. Founded in 17 7o to provide accommodation for the visitors to the mineral wells of Pannanich, I to the east, it has since become a popular summer resort. Ballatrich farm, where Byron spent part of his boyhood, lies some 4m. to the east.